Nick Rout wrote:
On Mon, 2005-06-20 at 20:46 +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Your dhcp server *should* only be updating every 3600 seconds at the
very least ( iirc it checks that your lease is still valid at 50% of
that value ). So, once you've got a license, you should keep it for at
least an hour.
err I think you are both confusing server with client?
Nope. A client machine could not get its static 10.1.1.5 net throughput,
though the link looked ok, nor via DHCP (that's right, it looked like a
DNS failure). Got another client working though, using the html
login-reset page via XP-IE, at 10.1.1.3 (the first/only ethernet address
the modem serves to/unfailingly?, after its 10.1.1.2 USB port). Was then
able to reconfigure original client to 10.1.1.3, after shutting down the
usual lessee, and connect. By then it was 3.20pm though - host fault
fixed. It was an odd-looking half-service until then.
From the third party reports I've heard, it was the logon server that
got disconnected ( there's only one??? ), so once you lost your lease,
you were stuffed.
What I can't believe is that there was no redundancy, given that the
fibre infrastructure was designed for it. Was it designed like the
Shuttle... lowest bid got the contract? Two cable breaks, one on each
island, took out all of the Telecom internet, chunks of the mobile
network, and eftpos!
lokewise, i thought this was what arpanet was supposed to get round!
The price we pay living in a small economy, eh - low route redundancy. I
heard on RadioNZ that 'Internet II' is being planned now though, to
connect the Uni's etc. Bring it on.
There was a similar outage in London about 10 years ago, when a ship
dragged it's anchor and cut both sides of the ring across the Thames.
Took linx out for the best part of a day. But at least there was a ring
present, even if both sides were next to each other!
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